However, the human body is a complex system of delicate balances, and the strain of carrying and delivering three lives is a feat of extreme physiological endurance. By the following morning, the atmosphere of celebration had been replaced by a cold, clinical emergency. The complications that arose—often a result of sudden hemorrhaging or cardiovascular strain that can follow a multiple birth—struck with a velocity that outpaced the best efforts of the surgical team. In the silent, early hours of the day, the light that had burned so brightly in the delivery room began to fade. The transition from the peak of human joy to the depth of tragedy happened in the blink of an eye, leaving a family to reconcile the arrival of three new lives with the sudden, inexplicable departure of the one who brought them here.
